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Culture: Richard Brooks: Biteback

Andrew Marr to give up being the BBC’s political editor after the election? It’s certainly looking that way. I bumped into him last week at the Orwell political-writing awards, and while he would not confirm it, he gave an impression that he was more than likely to quit the post.

So, will he then take over from David Frost on Sunday mornings on BBC1? His response was equivocal, but he left me thinking that it was on the cards. If all this comes to pass, the inside money is on Newsnight’s Martha Kearney as Marr’s successor.

Meanwhile, Frost is heading for the stage. Some lucky actor will have the honour of bringing the great man to life in a play pencilled in for the West End later this year. A dramatised account of his infamous interviews with the disgraced former American president Richard Nixon has been written by Peter Morgan,